A Socio-Psychological Study: Part 4
The media influences millions of people, entire generations and societies, often from birth. Messages sink into our minds and when they are repeated systematically, can have a massive impact on our beliefs, behavior and lives. We need to make sure we are conscious of what ideas are slipping into our subconscious minds and make sure that any messages we ourselves spread (be it through music or videos etc.) don't repeat the same racial patterns.
This video study looks at justifications given by people trying to justify the racial imaging of females in the media and shows these justifications are in fact based on false ideas, misconceptions and a lack of comprehensive understanding about the way the human mind works.
* Video 1: INTRODUCTION
* Videos 2 - 9: JUSTIFICATIONS: The justifications some people make for bias in the media today
* Videos 9 - 11: ANALYSIS: An analysis of the impacts this has on our minds and society
* Video 12: IDEAS for the future
The aim of the video is to create a happier, more harmonious, more integrated and more cohesive community for all living in the West and the rest of the world.
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The corporations have jumped on the economic opportunity by saying that women will be more attractive if they buy their bleaching products. Hair bleaching has become a kind of get out of jail free card - if you want a quick fix to make yourself more attractive, use this bleach and benefit from the ready-made stereotype.
What I am trying to argue against is the myth and corporate twist that bleached hair is somehow the symbol of femininity and womanhood. Selling this idea to women means: only allowing genuine blonde women to be accepted when they pay for bleach, and making brunette women pay because they don't fit the stereotype. The connection is to the bleach and not to the genuine colour because we don't see natural blonde women in the media; you see the women who have used bleach.
My point is, what we think today is not necessarily normal, what we think today is probably because of what we thought yesterday. And it is not normal to now only see bleached blonde women in the media. it downgrades the natural and feminine beauty of women who do not use bleach and who do not have blonde hair. And it also makes genuine blonde women think they have to use bleach just to be accepted.
One further point.
Do you think that young boys go out on their first occasion to look for pornography and specifically ask for it with bleached blonde women? Or do they really just find the pornography material that is available? Young boys today have all grown up watching cartoons where the female characters have blonde yellow hair. They watch the sit-coms which always have the main female or girlfriend character played by a blonde woman, they go in public and see blonde women all over the adverts, and they notice that the ideas are spread through society, their friends have all seen the same ideas too. Then when they get to puberty, they buy their first pornography magazine which still uses the 70 year old bleached blonde idea. What happens? He begins to connect females, women, sexuality, sexual gratification with blonde hair. How can you expect him not to? But can you really say this is his natural preference? This is his genuine opinion? No, these opinions have been created. Sexual gratification and sexual feelings are one of the most powerful feelings for a man to have. If you keep on linking that sexual feeling to blonde hair, many men will end up believing that blonde hair is a symbol of womanhood. But it has nothing to do with blonde hair at all, its the mental associations. In my view if they didn't see and associate blonde hair with females in the media all the time, most men wouldn't find blonde hair attractive.
And how do you think that makes non-blonde women feel? A lot of men don't want to accept this is a massive insult. They try to argue against it, they try to excuse it, they create justifications. But it doesn't wash. Because you know full well it's insulting. The men aren't the ones who are publicly chosen second instead of first. They aren't the ones who are taught that blonde women are better choices than them. Before the men start to argue, my question is this:
1) How would you feel if you had to grow up and be told some other type of person was better than you, all your life? And if you are still pretending, then I have another question:
2) How would you feel if your daughter was brunette and she was told she is not as feminine as a blonde woman?
Stop arguing! Admit you wouldn't like it, admit it is wrong and start to treat all women with respect.
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'Blonde Blind': The Modern Media (5 of 12)by earthgirl3000819 views
I absolutely agree but the music can be a little annoying.
=) VERY GOOD VIDEO
sashkalitcheski 3 years ago
thanks!! but annoying music??!! ohhh sorry, i put it in because i didn't want people to feel bored... !!!
earthgirl3000 3 years ago